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Friday, September 26, 2008

New Statesman article on Clegg's cold calling

The New Statesman website has an article on the Lib Dem robocalling debacle:

The worry for ambitious Liberal Democrats is not just that the plan Clegg announced to cold call 250,000 people turned out to be an embarrassment: it is that those around him were so besotted with the idea.

8 comments:

Yes. The bloke in the village who buys a fourpack of Stella for his breakfast told me he'd been rung, didn't like it and thought it was a bad idea. He said it rather trenchently and opined that our leader was a 'tit'. I will tell him the advisers were to blame.

After the Euro referendum cock up, the dreadful London results on May 1, the "about £30 quid" basic state pension full frontal exposure and the cold calling reprimand, it is surely time Cledd did something right. Anything?

* Make It Happen. Whatever quibbles I may have with it, it's mostly good stuff, and crucially tries to present our policies in a convincing way rather than trying to work out what voters will vote for and pretending to support that.* The speech at Bournemouth (and the one at Liverpool, for that matter). Having the courage to be unashamedly Liberal in it, to highlight mental illness as a major issue, and to talk in terms of us needing to use less energy in future. Brave and correct.* Letting Vince and others share what little limelight there is.